Ali Gharib talks Libya with Thom Hartmann on RT
Ali Gharib of Think Progress joined Russia Today’s Thom Hartmann to discuss the Libyan revolution on August 22.
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Does Iran Want a Bomb? State Spox: “Ask Ahmadinejad”
The official position of the U.S. on Iran is still — rightfully — that no one can be sure that the Iranians are bent on making a nuclear weapon. In a briefing yesterday, acting State Department spokesperson Mark Toner put an… Continue Reading
More Disingenuous Fear Mongering from Clarion Fund
The group behind a string of Islamophobic documentaries is at it again: With just 48days to go until the release of “Iranium,” the Clarion Fund has kicked into high gear promoting its film about Iran. One bit of the effort… Continue Reading
Hawks Cherry-picking WikiLeaks
There’s a clear emerging pattern here — one that should not surprise us after the run-up to the Iraq war — of Washington-based hawks seeing exactly what they want (and nothing more) in everything that comes across their desks. Matt… Continue Reading
Sadjadpour: Arab leaders don’t want democratic Iran
Matt Duss at Think Progress picks up on Carnegie Endowment expert Karim Sadjadpour‘s Financial Times piece yesterday to point out that military containment won’t work against as a strategy against a country — Iran — that garners regional clout through… Continue Reading